LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 30 November 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Marching Girls to Parade Prior 10 the dance being held in the Regent ballroom this evening, the girls' marching teams will march from the post offiee in Queen Street along Oxford Street to Maunders' shop and then countermarch and left turn into Bath Street. Judges have been appointed and trophies will be awarded to the members of the winning team.

Y.W.c.A. New Building A letterTias been received by Mrs. C. Nichol, of Levin, from the Y.W.C.A. expressing thanks for the splendid plan the Levin women's organisations have decided on to help the Y.W.C.A. new- building appeal. The organisations concerned plan to send goods of various kinds to the Y.W.C.A. Opportunity Shop in Wellington on four occasions during the year. Ballot Papers Run Out At Taupo on Wednesday the general election polling was the heaviest ever known, mainly due to electors from outside districts wishing to poll as absentee voters. The whole supply of printed ballot papers, forms, envelopes and other documents was exhausted by midday and from then • on voting j papers had to be prepared by hand. Lighting Waitomo Caves Waitomo Caves are now being tested for their fifth lighting system, said the General Manager of the'Tourist Department, Mr. L. J. Schmitt, having progressed from candles to hurricane lamps, magnesium fiares and incandescent lights. The caves are now being fitted with fluorescent lighting. In the past the brightness of the lights caught the eye and detracted from the beauty of the caves. The fluorescent system will be an indirect one with the lamps themselves concealed. Ducklings Killed A bit of viciousness in three boys old enough to have developed Lhe elements of decency, one being about 16 and the other two only a couple of years younger, was seen in North Hagley Park at the weekend, when the attention of a passer-by was attracted by the curious way they were acting. As he approached, he saw, before they saw him. and disappeared, that they were armed with "shanghais." They had been stalking a duck that had brought her newly-hatch-ed brood to paddle in her shallow pools in a runnel scoured by the water amongst the roots of a'grove of trees; and the bodies of two dead ducklings showed that the "shanghais" had been deadly effective. Novel Election Bet Honoured Barracked enthusiastically by a crowd of about 50, two men (one of them with an artificial leg) crawled on their hands and knees about 200 yards down Heretaunga Street, Hastings, in the early hours of yesterday morning. They were the losers of a novel election wager in which they undertook, if the National Party were defeated, to, crawl from the Albert Hotel to the Grand Hotel. The other two men concerned in the wager had agTeed to crawl from the Albert Hotel to the Stortford Lodge Hotel, more than a mile. if the National Partv

were returned. Three of the men concerned in the wager were unaware that the fourth had an artificial leg until after the course was completed. Ketch's Voyage to Sydney Shortly after 5 o'clock on Thursday the ketch Ilex left Wellington on her voyage to Sydney «to compete in the Sydney-Hobart ocean race. The yacht made a stirring sight as she swept past the wharf and out towards the Heads. Weather forecasts Were not encouraging and the crew expect to take a "dusting" for the first two or three days, when medium to strong winds from the north-west, backing to the south-west, are forecast. Eighty gallons of fuel oil were loaded, sufficient for 500 miles. The engine will be run for four hours every day to charge the batteries. Every evening at 10.30 and midnight the Ilex's wireless operator will make contact with amateur radio operators in New Zealand. He will transmit on the 80 metre band, using the call-sign ZL4IA. The South Aberdeen by-election for the British House of Commons resulted: Lady Priscilla Grant (Conservative) , 21,750; Mr. A. J. Irvine (Labour), 17,911,